Pink Salmon ImplantSandie from DFO coordinated with Tenderfoot Hatchery to allocate some eggs for Mosquito Creek.
We set out to plant the eyed-eggs into the gravel bed of Mosquito Creek, similar to a female salmon would in the wild. The implanting process is necessary for Pink salmon on systems that don't have a hatchery on site. This is because Pink and Chum salmon alike leave to begin their ocean journey as soon as they leave the gravel as fry. To achieve the best chance for the fry to return as adults, they need to spend the longest amount of time "imprinting" on the system in which they are born. Thus, simply taking the swimming fry from a foreign hatchery and releasing them in the new creek does not work. This is because once released in the new system they will leave immediately to the ocean without sufficient imprinting time. Once their ocean migration is completed they would return to the hatchery system instead of the system in which they were released as fry. Explaining aside, it was a very successful morning. Brian and Steve surprised us and joined in on the fun. We deposited about 18,000 eggs into the gravel of Mosquito Creek. Later Neptune Terminals showed up to assist with the final 2,000 eggs. A council member from Squamish Nation was kind enough to spare time to accept a $20,000 donation from Neptune. These funds will go towards the Lower Mosquito Creek Salmon Enhancement Project, which is now slated to begin the 2nd week of August 2020. Thank you Neptune!!
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The logs from the upper Squamish watershed began showing up at our laydown area on Harbourside Drive Nov. 6 and concluded Nov 14th.
Nearly all the logs have fully intact, absolutely beautiful rootwad structures. Unfortunately two of the logs got attacked by firewood hunters in Squamish, so those trees are just stumps. We have 18 beautiful logs + 2 stumps. It is likely we will be able to incorporate the two stumps into our structures. The great news as mentioned a few times is the quality of wood and the rootwads. Unfortunately in addition to being short two logs, the pricing came in at about double than anticipated, so it is likely we will need to come up with some extra funding. Also, we are in dire need to source the remaining logs, we need 29 more to complete the number required in NHC's design. Please contact me directly if you have a source for logs with intact rootwads at [email protected] Early Season Spawner SurveysDavid Lavalle joined me to check out some of the lower sections of Mosquito creek in search for some early Coho. We walked the creek with our GoPros in the water for about a kilometer, but didn't see any with our eyes. I wold David we would be surprised when we reviewed the footage. Sure enough there were several that we caught on camera. Here are the videos.
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AuthorKeegan Casidy Archives
January 2020
CategoriesMosquito Creek,
North Vancouver, British Columbia |